Beth Tanenhaus Winsten is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, visual artist, and creator of the digital genre tinyBigPictureshows with channels on Youtube and Vimeo. Her work has been broadcast on the National Geographic Explorer

National Geographic Explorer

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 Series, TBS

TBS (TV channel)

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, PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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, ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliates among others. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 and The Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts

The Detroit Institute of Arts is a renowned art museum in the city of Detroit. In 2003, the DIA ranked as the second largest municipally owned museum in the United States, with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars...

 have showcased her work.

Daughter of political scientist Joseph Tanenhaus (deceased) and classics scholar Gussie Hecht Tanenhaus, siblings are psycholinguist, author, and lecturer Michael Tanenhaus

Michael Tanenhaus

Michael Tanenhaus is an American psycholinguist, author, and lecturer. He is the Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics at the University of Rochester...

; author, historian, and “The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...

 Editor” Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus is an American historian, biographer, and journalist.-Biography:Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1978. He is currently the editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review...

 and legal historian, writer and editor David S. Tanenhaus.

After attending the Sibford School

Sibford School

Sibford School is a British co-educational independent school in Sibford Ferris, west of Banbury in Oxfordshire, linked with the Religious Society of Friends. The school has both day and boarding pupils between the ages of 3 and 18.-Overview:...

 in Sibford Ferris, England and being the first American accepted as a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

 National Youth Theatre

National Youth Theatre

The National Youth Theatre is a registered charity in London, Great Britain, committed to creative, personal and social development of young people through the medium of creative arts....

 in London

London

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, England

England

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, Tanenhaus Winsten briefly attended Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

 before graduating with a B.A. in English from Wayne State University

Wayne State University

Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...

. She received an M.A. in 1995 in film from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 where she has taught screenwriting.

As a graduate student, Tanenhaus Winsten won the 1995 Major Drama Hopwood Award

Hopwood Award

The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the...

 for her screenplay “The Black Corset Affair” and a 1995 public affairs EMMY Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for her thesis film “Body & Soul.”

Tanenhaus Winsten’s script “Rock Garden” won the 1999 National Festival of New Works Competition which lead to a rewrite under the supervision of Academy-award winning screenwriter Kurt Leudtke (Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen , which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book...

). Filmmaker/screenwriter Dan T. Green directed an Actors' Equity Association

Actors' Equity Association

The Actors' Equity Association , commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or...

 production of a staged reading of “Rock Garden” at the Trueblood Theater in 1999.

Before founding btwfilms in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2009 with associate, Mike Smith, she was a featured film critic and writer on popular culture at “The Metro Times” in Detroit and has contributed articles to “The Detroit News

The Detroit News

The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960,...

” and “The Detroit Free Press.”

Filmmaking awards: include 3 CINE

CINE

CINE is a consortium formulated to depict American life and thought realistically for a global audience. CINE recognizes and fosters the highest quality of non-theatrical film and video production through its semi-annual film competitions....

 Golden Eagles; 4 regional EMMY Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

s; Blue Ribbon, 1st Place at American Film and Video Festival; 3 Golden ITVAS (International Television Awards of Excellence) as well as several TELLYS.

Screenwriting awards include: the Major Drama Avery Hopwood Award

Hopwood Award

The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the...

. The 1999 National Festival of New Works selected "Rock Garden", for its showcase series that playwrights Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...

 (Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Premiered at the Morosco Theatre in February 1949, the original production ran for a total of 742 performances.-Plot :Willy Loman...

, The Crucible

The Crucible

The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...

) and Michael Weller

Michael Weller

Michael Weller is a Brooklyn-based playwright who is best known for his plays Moonchildren and Loose Ends. Weller is one of the founders of the Cherry Lane Theatre's acclaimed Mentor Project, which pairs pre-eminent playwrights with emerging playwrights for a season-long mentorship...

 (Moonchildren

Moonchildren

Moonchildren is a play by Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Weller. The play chronicles a year in the life of the "moonchildren" referred to in the title: eight college students living communally together in an off-campus attic in the mid 1960s.-Performances:The work was first performed in 1971...

, Loose Ends

Loose Ends

In common conversation, the phrase loose ends usually refers to unresolved issues.Loose Ends may also refer to the following:In music:* Loose Ends * Loose Ends...

) judged, participated in, and attended.

Films

Body & Soul (1995)

The Journey of the Chandler/Pohrt Collection (1992)

It’s Magic (1991)

KidSpace (1990)

Encore on Woodward: Detroit’s Fox Theater (1989)

tinyBigPictureshows

The Perfect Metaphor for Poetry (2009)

A Perfect Funeral (2009)

Homage to David Lynch (2009)

Motown’s Oldest Music School (2009)

Undertakings (2009)

BEC (2010)

Strawberry Jam (2010)